Show HN: A fast, accurate and multilingual fuzzy search lib for the front end

1. Fuse

   1 60 19,145 7.1 JavaScript

   Lightweight fuzzy-search, in JavaScript

   

   Looks like a neat library.

   I’m curious if there’s a tl;dr on how this is better or different to Fuse, which is a very popular established client side fuzzy searching library.

   https://github.com/krisk/fuse

2. SurveyJS

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3. fuzzy-search

   2 2 909 2.5 TypeScript

   A fast, accurate and multilingual fuzzy search library for the frontend.

   

4. brainstorm

   3 1 4 6.0 TypeScript

   A 60fps mtg card name search (by trescenzi)

   

   Have you considered building the search piece in wasm for performance? A few years back I was looking for a library like this and couldn’t find one that seemed fast enough for what I wanted. I ended up building one in rust and it’s easily 2x as fast as the js code I started with.

   It’s not nearly as good a fuzzy search as this is as I just kinda tinkered with it till it felt ok for the purpose but it could be way better.

   Source: https://github.com/trescenzi/brainstorm

5. elasticlunr.js

   4 11 2,053 0.0 JavaScript

   Based on lunr.js, but more flexible and customized.

   

   When i did my static site search function some time ago, I used Elasticlunr. I was able to pregenerate the index file as a big json file that is loaded at the client.

   http://elasticlunr.com/

6. uFuzzy

   5 18 2,832 6.9 JavaScript

   A tiny, efficient fuzzy search that doesn't suck

   

   Thank you. We need more libs like that. I just researched the field yesterday and https://github.com/leeoniya/uFuzzy looked pretty good. But there is a gap in the market of such libs. Just few allow to send the whole html document, serialize and deserialize index to be used in browser, highlighting the matches is desired feature.

   Most importantly very few fuzzy search libs can get a simple substring match as a priority, which is understandable but not helpful. Imagine searching for “xample” and not having “example” among the results.

7. InfluxDB

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